North Korea’s foreign minister said Monday that President Donald Trump has “declared war” on his country and that Kim Jong Un’s regime would consider shooting down American bombers.
\n“Since the U.S. declared war on our country, we will have every right to make countermeasures, including the right to shoot down the U.S. bombers even when they are not yet inside the airspace border of our country,” Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters in New York.
\n“Last weekend, Trump claimed that our leadership wouldn’t be around much longer and he declared a war on our country,” he added. “Even the fact that this comes from someone who is currently holding the seat of the U.S. presidency is clearly a declaration of war.”
\nThe foreign minister appeared to be referring to a tweet that Trump sent Sunday, which referred to “Rocket Man” \u2014 the president’s nickname for Kim.
\nThe White House on Monday rejected the notion that the U.S. had declared war and ripped Pyongyang’s talk of shooting down American planes.
\n“We have not declared war on North Korean, and frankly the suggestion of that is absurd,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a press briefing Monday.
\nShe added that “it’s never appropriate for a country to shoot down another country\u2019s aircraft when” the planes are over international waters.
\nKim and his officials are no stranger to fiery, war-like rhetoric, often threatening to immolate the U.S. in “a sea of fire” and to reduce “the whole of the U.S. mainland to ruins.”
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